On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 21:32 -0400, Bill Boebel wrote:

Do these errors indicate a memory leak? I see them in the logs a few times per day on each of our servers, running CVS dovecot-20060924...

Oct 8 22:21:30 mail38b dovecot: auth(default): block_alloc(): Out of memory Oct 8 22:21:30 mail38b dovecot: child 6391 (auth) returned error 83 (Out of memory) Oct 9 20:05:05 mail38b dovecot: auth(default): pool_system_realloc(): Out of memory Oct 9 20:05:05 mail38b dovecot: child 655 (auth) returned error 83 (Out of memory)

Could be. What passdb and userdb are you using? Are you using anything else than plaintext auth?